Bulgarian shot dead in Bulacan

CAMP OLIVAS, Pampanga: A Bulgarian was shot while paying his tricycle fare on Monday in Sta. Maria, Bulacan. Police investigators identified the foreigner as Lina Vasilov Hristov, 65, jobless and resident of the Marian Subdivision in Bulacan. It was also found that he was traveling with a companion named Jhoana Durana when the lone gunman arrived and shot the victim, hitting him three times in the body. It appeared that Hristova and Durana agreed to visit the former’s son Dentsislav, who is under a Bureau of Immigration custody in Camp Bagong Diwa in Taguig City, Metro Manila. Durana, who was not hurt in the incident, rushed the victim to the Rograciano M Memorial Hospital but Hristova was pronounced dead on arrival. Probers are still establishing the motive of the killing.